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Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...

Who Even Uses Linux? - You Do and You Probably Don't Even Know It  hackernoon.com

Slackware-based PorteuX 1.7 portable Linux now available with a new kernel, smaller ISOs, updated desktops, and more  Notebookcheck.net

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch  Phoronix

On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11. My initial testing of this ASUS AIPT patch has indeed shown the Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" yielding much better performance with this patch applied.

Beast Ransomware Attacking Windows, Linux, And ESXi Systems  CybersecurityNews

Codasip enables secure Linux by donating CHERI RISC-V SDK to the CHERI Alliance  Design and Reuse

Tachyum running Linux and applications with 64KB pages on FPGA  New Electronics

AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default  Phoronix

Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver...

Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant...

Factorio 2.0 and Factorio: Space Age DLC are out now  GamingOnLinux

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations...

Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows programs on other CPU architectures like ARM64 Linux. With Hangover 9.20 they have restored the ability for running Win64 applications on ARM64 Linux hosts...

Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine  Phoronix

The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3...

Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 20th, 2024  9to5Linux

Red Hat reveals major enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI  ZDNet